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CHARLES HENRY KIMBALL, OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent N6. 87,781, dated Maf/rch 16, 1869.

MROVEMET IN TICKIElT-HOIIIDIERSv The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making parl: of the same.

To all persons to whom thescpresents may come:

Figure 3 is a side view of it, as applied to the rim of a hat.

Figure 4 is a top view of it, as it appears with the clamp raised at a right angle with the nippers.

The purpose of the said ticketeholder is to support a railway-passengers ticket, and fix it to the rim ofthe hat of a person, in order that suoli ticket may be observed to advantage, from time to time, by a conductor of a railway-carriage in which the person having the ticket xed to his hat may -be seated.

The article is composed mainly of a spring-clamp, A, and a pair of Dipper-levers, B C, providedwith a closingspring, D.

The spring-clamp is composed of a jawed bar, a, and a j awed spring, b, fastened together at or near the lower end of the latter,vv they being formed and arranged in manner as represented.

There is fastened to the lower part of such clamp a projection, E, which is hinged to one end of the upper of the nipper-levers B C, and rests on the lower of such levers.

f The said two levers are hinged together at or near their middles, and provided with a spring, D, which is arranged between their tails, andffastened to one, and, at or near its fore end, bears against the other of them, the whole being as shown in the drawings.

In using the article, the parts should first be brought into the positions shown' in iig. 3 y that is, the clamp. A should be turned up at a right angle, or thereabout, with the nippers, after which the railway-passenger ticket should be inserted between the jaws ofthe clamp. The ticket-holder should next have the rim of the hat i ofthe passenger placed between the jaws ofthe nipperlevers, the spring afterward closing them upon the rim, so as to rnily hold them in connection therewith. The hinge-piece or projection E, by being borne against the rim, will hold the clamp in its angular position Awith` respect to the nippers.

By folding the clamp down upon the nippers, the whole article will be in-a favorable condition for being carried in the vest-.pocket of its owner.-

I claim the new article of manufacture, or ticket-z holder, made substantially as described and represented.

CEAS. HENRY KIMBALL. .Witnesses z R. H. EDDY, SAMUEL N. PIPER... 

